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THE GEORGIA JOURNAL.
VOL. I.
MILLEDGEVTLLE, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1810.
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was little circulation of specie, andjrights, honor and independence” of
the nation against all assailants. At
this late day, it would be unfortunate
indeed, if the only project which there
is the least chance of bringing to ligh
should be smothered. The time is
growing short—-none seem to think
that we shall sit longer than the first
ol May. How does the gentleman
who made this motion know, but that
Virginia. Till within a few yearslin my anxiety to get a glimpse of the
horse stealing was punished with project of the gentleman from Mary
death, without benefit of clergy; and land, I shall agree to incorporate his
murdering a slave was called man-jainendment with my preposition, and
slaughter, for which the murderer let the subject go to two different com
mittees. 1 trust that the gentle titan
from Maryland would be at the head
tobacco was the staple article of the
country, is still pertinaciously pre
served. The Buckskins ridicule the
Yankees for their Blue Laws, &c.
absurd enough to he sure : but let it
be remembered that abo ve fifty years
after those blue laws were abolished,
laws as immoral and as lidiculous
were in full force in Maryland and
was fined. Crim. Con. between sin
gle persons was not expensive ; if
detected, 100 pounds of tobacco, or.of one committee, on which I certain- becoming the Atlas of our political
one ortwo dollars. The law of 1715,yy have no desire to be placed ; and world, I am no competitor of the geri-
against adultery, and which is still should £ be put on the other, we shall
in force, runs thus—“ Every person
convicted of adultery in the provinci
al or county court, by confession or
verdict, shall be fined 3l. current mo
ney, or 12,000 lbs. of tobacco.”
hid. Amcr.
coaruiuass.
' TO RAISE HEMP-SEED.
The land must be rich, and made
Itiellow by ploughing and harrowing.
After that is done, lay it off in rows
about 6 feet apart, by a furrow’ with
yeur plough ; drop your seed in these
furrows, from four to six inches apart;
cover them with a light soil about one
inch deep. When the plant comes up,
keep it clean of grass and weeds till it
gets six or eight inches high ; then
you may put in your plough and turn
a furrow to it, and tend it with plough
and hoes as you would Indian corn.
The ground w’orm, if any in the
neighbourhood, will cut it off w'hen
young ; but their place may be sup
plied by drawing up others where
they are too thick, and transplanting
them after a shower of rain—(they
will admit of being transplanted ve
ry well, if done carefully.) When
the plants get about twelve inches
high, thin them, so as to leave them
about eighteen inches apart ; that
will be sufficiently near ; and if the
land is Very rich ; three feet w'ould
he a better distance. The plant that
bears seed never blossoms, and that
which blossoms bears no seed ; but
they must not be separated.
When your seed begins to ripen,
there is a small yellow bird, which would perceive that he had submitted
come in flocks and will destroy it il Jto its consideration a proposition as
r.ot attended to. This seed will be-| e xplicit and definite as language couldjlove of country
gin to ripen in August, and will con-l eX prcss. To this proposition had been,intercourse law be repealed, that
tinue to ripen and fall lrom the stockjtacked an amendment which, as sub-Jsome measure of energy, such as a
till the frost checks it. It is welljgtitutcs are very much in vogue, ap-'committee may report or the House
1 ‘ ‘ ill be
inter-
proposition.course. IMy object was that the sub-
a small stick, to make the seed tail ; 0 f a very different nature from theo-ject might in the b.oadcst possible
this should be done twice a week at'riginal one ; since instead of beingiinanner be presented to the com
mittee. 1 was of opinion, at the pas
sage of Campbell’s resolutions, that
to repeal the embargo, without some
measure of resistance, would be
positive submission to the British
orders and French decrees. What
is then the project of the Senate con
what is expected of Us ? Ccrtaiuh
lot. As long as the session continues,
it must be expected tliat something
will be devised. Jf the resolution bt
committed, and I am a member of the
committee, I will exert my little ta
lent to devise some means of resis
tance. I do not say that I am compe
tent to the task ; it is for the gentle
man himself, with his vastly servicea
ble talents and extraordinary imagi
nation to devise some strong energe
tic measure, to meet the sense of this
House and save the nation. I canon
<y give the little aid my feeble talents
win enable me to offer. I have not
moved the amendment with a vietv of
DEBATE
On the Resolution for the repeal of
the Non-Intercourse Law.
An amendment had been offered
by Mr. Montgomery in the follow
ing words : “ Anil that provision
ought to be made by law for maintain
ing the rights, honor & independence
of the United States against the e-
dicts of Great Britain and France.”
Mr. Rhea (T.) moved to post
pone the further consideration of the
subject till to-morrow.
Mr. Randolph said the House
each be acting in eur respective pro
vinces—-I in mine, aiming to get at a
specified object by the most direct
way; and he in his, supporting atlas
like upon his shoulders the vast inter
ests of the state.
Mr. Montgomery said that he
could see no reason for postpone
ment. Every member on the floor
must be satisfied that the session was
drawing to a close. Congress had
been in session four or five months,
and were now precisely in the same
situation with regard to our foreign
relations in which they were the first
day of the session, because on the
first day of the session they need on
ly have adjourned to have got rid of
the non-intercourse, if this was the
only measure contemplated during
the session. In the motion which 1
have made (said Mr. Montgomery)
to amend the motion of the gentle
man from Virginia, I was actuated
by no other principle than that of
I wish, if the non-
Jcast, or you will lose halt your seed.| C xplicit as to its object and definite
About the last ol September will be'j n j ts terms, it dealt only in pompous
the time to cut them down, or pulf anc i lofty generalities. (The Spea-
them up. You must have a clean'observed that the House had not
place to cure them 0%, as the seed : y e t determined to consider the pro-
ialls out very easy after the stock be
comes dry. Thresh out the seed and
clean it with a fan.
I tried the above me'hod in time
of the American revolution, and rai
sed 28 bushels of excellent seed from
less than one acre of ground, and a
part of the ground was not very
good. I had some stalks as thick
as the small of my log, and I think 1
must have got upwards of a peck of
seed from a single stalk. Not find
ing a market for this seed, I decli
ned raising it.
E. K.
position to which the gentleman al
luded.) If the Speaker, sir, said
Mr. R. will give himself the troublejtained in their amendments, of ita-
to attend fora few moments he will kedly repealing the non-intercourse ?
perceive that the whole bearing of It is direct, abject and unequivocal
my observations will go to shew the submission. I am not yet reduced
ELECTRICAL EELS
From that part of Mr. Humboldt’s
Travels which has appeared in
Europe under the title of Ta
bleaux de la Nature.
“ The marshy streams of Bern and
Bostro are full of electrical eels,
whose slimy body, dashed with yel
lowish spots, communicates in every
direction, and spontaneously, a vio
lent shock. These gymnoti are a-
bout six feet long ; and when they
suitably direct their organs, armed
withanapparatusofmultiplied nerves
thev are able to kill the most robust
animals. The people ol Uritucu
have been under the necessity oi
changing the road on Steppe, be
cause the eels had increased to such
impropriety of postponing my mo
tion since it involves the very seri
ous inconvenience and disadvantage,
of postponing also the weighty a-
mendment of the gentleman lrom
Maryland (Mr. Montgomery). I
am willing to admit that my proposi
tion is one of that unimportant de
scription which may without any ve
ry serious national injury lie indefi
nitely postponed ; but I pray the
Rouse not to lose by such a measure
the precious project which the gentle
man from Maryland is no doubt rea
dy to submit to a committee for as
serting the rights and honor of the
nation against the two great bellige
rents of Europe. It would be mat
ter of serious national calamity, it al
ter being near five months in session,
after sanctioning a proposition in sub
stance little different from this of the
gentleman of Maryland when no sub
stitute has been hatched under the
to that state—I wish to see some
measure of resistance adopted in
place of it, if repealed. It was with
pleasure I saw the gentleman lrom
Virginia (Mr. Randolph) rise to
move a repeal of the non-intercourse ;
and I had no idea, when a motion
was made to amend his motion, and
which avowed as its object the pro
tection of the rights of the nation a-
gainst foreign violation, that it would
have been objected to. I was well
aware, sir, that the nation bad lost
the benefit of his projecting talents
for the greater part of the winter,
and that, had he been present, he
might have conceived some measure
which might have been of service to
the nation. I moved my amend
ment, with the view that, as perhaps
the gentleman would be chairman ol
the committee to whom his proposi
tion would be relerred, he might
have the whole subject belore him,
tleman’s. I Moved it as a member
of this House, «s I had a right to do,
I am not to he driven out of my
course ; and, sir, if the gentleman ex
pects to brow-beat me on this or any
other occasion, he will find he has mis
taken his man.
Mr. Rhea expressed his wish that
if gentlemen were about to bring
forth vast and grand projects, they
would postpone them till the post
road bill would enable them to trans
mit their mighty plans throughout
tlie nation with greater facility. The
merits of the proposition had nothing
to do with the question of postpone
ment till to-morrow. The session
was drawing to a close, and he wish
ed to see the post-office hill passed.
Mr. Dana said he did not wonder
that the gentleman lrom Maryland
really felt the situation in which Con
gress were placed, and the high re-
ponsibilitv they owed to the nation,
when he reflected that altera session
of four months, no one thing-had been
done which bespoke any system of
digested measures. To whom was
the fault imputable ? Whether there
was any fault in the case, was not a
question at this time to be discussed.
The President of the U. S. at the
opening of the session of Congress,
had called their attention to the state
of our affairs, and given them ample
opportunity to acton their own wis
dom. Mr. D. quoted this part of the
message. “ In the state which has
been presented of our affairs withthi
great parties to a disastrous and pro
traded war, carried on in a mode e
qually injurious and unjust to the U.
States, as a neutral nation, the wis
dom of the national Legislature will
be again summoned to the important
decision of the alternatives before
them.” This was the amount of the
recommendation received from the
Executive, so that Congress had been
left jjcrfectly unrestrained as to the
course which they might have thought
proper to pursue. The hill which]
had panned through so many varie-
wings of the different committees of
his system c. 'V he presented, I am
lerirotts ol see.i lf -
I rhoi.’ld hope that the resolution
night be vivKl'fw ■o’ if passed as pin
ioned t‘6 be en.octftd. I wish that it
•nay not be c-onfim'd entirely to
Great Britain n.;uJ Fraucc ; because
»ther rations, Ho.H-tnd ior instance,
.md some of the poV efS c 'n the Bal
tic have adopted mens ures injurious
to our rights. I W’Oulu ll ot pass a
resolution implying that ' ve would
surrender our rights to any' other
power than Great Britain or Fr:v nci; *
But, as the subject is ve ry interest
ing to the public, I should wish to
have the benefit of any system which
might be matured to leave the Legis
lature from any reproach supposed
to he cast by the people on it ; and
am therefore desirous that the reso
lution should not be postponed.
Mr. Randolph said it was not at
all surprising to him that any man
who could once bring himself to br
ieve that the non-intercourse, as it
was called and now practised on, a*
grecably to the representation of the
Secretary of the Treasury How on
die table, was resistance to the two
great belligerents, could also bring
himself to believe that the repeal of
the non-imercourte laws would be
submission to them. But what iu
fact, said he, is the nature of the pro
position which it is proposed to post*
pone. It is proposed by me to do
that immediately and beneficially for
ourselves and for the public, openly,
in a manly direct way, which every
man foresees will be done in an indi*
rect one when Congress adjourns.
And if it be more resistance to the
belligerents to adjourn and sneak out
of the non-intercourse than to repeal
it, so be it—-but in the merits of that
species of resistance I am determin
ed not to participate. With respect,
sir, to any project which one so little
acquainted with the course of public
affairs during the present winter as
myself, might be supposed capable of
bringing forward in order to support
the maritime tfiglus of this nation a-
gainst the European powers, 1 hope
I may be permitted to observe, with
out any intentional disrespect to tho
Executive, that when he shall have
done that (I do not say that he ha/I
not) which the constitution prescribes
to him as an imperious duty, I shall
Jo mine—Anu surely it is a suffici
ent stretch of presumption in me to
propose to do away that which is al
lowed to he mischievous in its ope
ration, instead of attempting to build
up with materials which are totally
unfit lor service, and on ground with
which, from my absence during tiie
present session, I may be presumed
to be less acquainted than other mem
bers ol this House. When the Pre
sident shall Save done that which the
ties t»flegislation. Mr. Danasaid was. . •
a ui icgisuiw , (constitution prescribes ns his lmprri-
and that the talents which have been
Congress—it would be a serious na
tional loss if this vast project—vast
it must be, being circumscribed by
no limits,—the indefinite is a princi-
a degree, that in every year rtiany 1 ingredient in the sublime—il this
horses, struck with their benumoing project now ready lor delivery,
;houid perish in this most unforlu-
influtnee, were drowned in crossing
the lord of a small river. All fish
es shun the approach of this formi
dable eel. It even frequently sur
prises men, who, standing on the
steep bank, are fishing with a hook,
the wetted line conveying the fatal
commotion. In this instance, the
electrical fire is disengaged from the
very bottom of the waters.”
There is in the state of Maryland
ft ridiculous and troublesome modt
in their courts,in laying fines, in the
statement of fees, &c. 01 reckoning
ever) thing by tobacco. This cus
tom, which commenced more than
(The Speaker observed that the
question was to postpone until to-mor
row, ?c not to postpone indefinitely.)
Mr. R. said that he had misappre
hended the question & wished that the
Speaker had corrected him sooner
of so great benefit to the nation lor
two or three years last past might be
again exerted, and something be de
vised by way of resistance to the de
crees of Great Britain and France,
and that the gentleman might again
have an opportunity ol astonishing
the nation at the magnitude of his
project. With respect, sir, to the
sarcasms againgt the generality of my
proposition, I disregard them. I act
ed from a sense of duty in proposing
it, St shall continue to do so, regard-
I less of the impotent sarcasms oi that
hope, however, sir, (said he) that the
House will not agree to postpone this
question, even until to-morrow. I
hope if the amendment ot the gentle
man from Maryland is to prevail—St
really, sir, I have a sort of longing to
see what he is about to bring forth—
if it prevails, I hope we shall be spee-
idv favored with the system which
Vlilirf H UIVII tUiUlllNiivou »•« w • - - J • • , . |
evutury and a halt since, when then ihe ha- devised bar '' maintaining ’-he
gentleman. I hope the resolution
will not be postponed. It is high time
that we come to some conclusion ; &
as long as the session continues, I will
v,ttll hope that some measure ol resis
tance to the orders of the belligerents
will be adopted. What, sir, shall we
continue in session five months, and
lo nothing more than we could have
done the first day we net ? Is this
decided ; and it seemed pe
fectly proper, if any thing further was f|o mine
to be done as to our foreign relations
that it should receive a prompt at
tention.
As to the talk about submission in
doing away the general system of
commercial restrictions, it might ve
ry well proceed from those who ap
proved the report of the committee at
the 2d session of the 10th Congress,
which had recommended the trilate
ral, triangular, prismatic war. The
continuance of the embargo or war
had been laid down as the only two
alternatives ; and a conclusion had
been drawn from these premises that
the embargo must be continued—and
yet at that very session the embargo
had been denounced by some of
those very persons who had voted
for that report. When the embar
go was given up, said Mr. Dana, the
principal was yielded. To talk a-
bout submission now is of no con
sequence to the nation. It was de
clared by a committee of this House
in a Very elaborate report that a re
vocation of the embargo or an at
tempt to modify it was submission.
As we have notwithstanding re
nounced that system, I am disposed
to do away all the inconvenience ol
it as respects themselves. If it has
been abandoned in its main bearing,
and all that remain operates injuri
ously on, ourselves—if the recoil is
more severe than the direct operation
onortr adversaries, lam against the
whole. It any project disticct from
ous duty, it will be time enough for
The constitution af-
ven to the President of tfie U. States
certain powers, in the execution of
which we are to presume lie is to be
governed bv a sound discretion, goes
on to use this very strong and impe
rative language. “ He shall from
lime to tiir.e give to Congress infor
mation of the state of the Union and
recommend to their consideration
uch measurer, as he shall judge ne
cessary and expedient.” Now, sir,
it is fair to take for granted that the
President of the U- S. has done his
duty ; that he has recommended
such measures as he may judge ne
cessary and expedient. What are
they, sir? If the President of the
United States, who is charged with
the execution of the laws, whose
knowledge respecting all our foreign
relations is perfect as that of finite
man can be—if he, on whom (do
what you w r ill) the execution of these
measures must ultimately rest, has
recommended no measure as neces
sary and expedient, it hardly be
comes— I will not say a member of
this House, but me to step in “ where
angels fear to tread.” And until the
President of the U. S. who stands at
the helm of our government shall dis
close his plan of operations to this
House—until the efficient prime mi
nister of this country, who has an al
most omnipotent control over our fo
reign affairs, and nearly as great over
aur domestic, shalldisdcs'rhtssenu^